In the final episode of this series, Bob and Roo talk about why a hermeneutic approach isn't 'soft'; what it involves; and why it might make us less busy in the end.

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In this penultimate episode, Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke talk to Professors Sophie Park and Sabena Jameel about how professional identity develops and how meaning is ascribed to  professionalism.

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Why does it matter to have an on-going relationship with your GP? In this episode, Dr Rini Paul and Sarah Murray talk to Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke about how a moment of non-judgement many years ago created the conditions for a cherished relationship that has been therapeutic for them both.  

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In this episode, Dr Emma Ladds talks to Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke about a time when she didn't follow guidelines; and how her on-going relationship with her patient affected her decision making as well as what happened afterwards.

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In this episode, Eugenia Lee tells Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke a story of a time when care and compassion proved to be better measures of efficiency than time.

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‘When I walked into the cubicle I found a woman in her twenties with long dark hair covering her face, and she was making these low growling sounds and muttering things I couldn't understand. Her family told me she'd become consumed by prayer, which was completely out of character, and had been saying that dark forces were entering her body.’ Marcus Lewis, GP and musician in North London was working in A&E when he met this woman and was told to ‘medically clear’ her. In this episode, he tells Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke what he chose to do instead.

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In every general practice, we have missing people - the ones who can’t access our help, who miss appointments, who get discharged from secondary care. We can think of them as time wasters who won’t help themselves - or we could respond in another way. In this episode, inner city Dublin GP and author Austin O’Carroll tells Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke a story about a young man who should have been saved.

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The book “Finding Meaning in Healthcare” is published by Routledge ⁠⁠⁠www.routledge.com/9781032832166

'You won't be able to go to every funeral, you know.' So as GPs, how do we choose which to go to, if any? Is it a sensible professional response to maintain boundaries and decline all such invitations or is there more at stake? Dr Andrew Papanikitas talks to Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke about his own experience and the moral choice he made.

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The young man has missed his GP appointment on three separate occasions in the past year. Should he be sent another admonishing text message from the practice; or is there a different response, one that inserts presence into absence? In this episode, Dr Suni Perera talks to Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke about compassion in the context of missingness.

This podcast is generously sponsored by The Della Fish Foundation.

The book “Finding Meaning in Healthcare” is published by Routledge ⁠⁠⁠www.routledge.com/9781032832166

In this episode, Rupal Shah and Bob Clarke welcome back Dr Jens Foell, who tells us the story of two very different responses to the utterance, 'You Suffer'. His story raises the question of what it means to be a GP. Are we containers, there to 'hold' the patient, even if this sometimes holds them back? Or should we move to becoming 'conveyors', helping people to move on from stuck situations?

This podcast is generously sponsored by The Della Fish Foundation.

The book “Finding Meaning in Healthcare” is published by Routledge ⁠⁠www.routledge.com/9781032832166